al-Ju'bari Abu Ishaq Ibrahim ibn Umar

الجعبري أبو إسحاق إبراهيم بن عمر

1242 CE · 640 AH – 1332 CE · 732 AH

Reader of the Qur'an known in Baghdad as Taqi al-Din and elsewhere as Burhan al-Din; died 732 AH (1332 CE).

Depth

At a glance

Roles
Scholar
Counted among
Sunni
Era
The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
Region
Levant & Iraq
Review
Draft Completeness 1/5 · Help complete it

Life in time

12001225125012751300132513501375 c. c. c.
The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era Contemporaries: Ibn Jama'a, Badr al-Din Muhammad ibn Ibrahim · Zaynab bint al-Kamal · Shaykh Safi al-Din al-Ardabili · Ahmad al-Suhrawardi · Sitt al-Wuzara' al-Tanukhiyya

Scripture and its sciences

Place in the story

  • ScholarTradition

Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.

Overview

Abu Ishaq Ibrahim ibn Umar ibn Ibrahim ibn Khalil al-Rab'i al-Ju'bari, a reciter of the Qur'an. He is titled Taqi al-Din in Baghdad and Burhan al-Din elsewhere, and is known as Abu Ishaq. He was born in 640 AH (1242 CE) and died in 732 AH (1332 CE). 1

Both dates rest on one source and need an additional source. The data write the name "al-Ju'bari" while the page identifier is "jabari"; the difference is only one of Latin transliteration.

People and things also explored

The seven ahruf· Hadith· Shama'il Muhammadiyya· The Prophetic sira· The Prophetic Sunna· Command, prohibition and capacity· The Sunna as explanation of the Qur'an· Bid'a (religious innovation)

Sources

  1. Mawsu'at A'lam al-Ulama' wa-l-Adaba' al-Arab wa-l-Muslimin — Dar al-Jil / ALECSO , p.299
Cite this page

islam.museum contributors. “al-Ju'bari Abu Ishaq Ibrahim ibn Umar”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/al-jabari-abu-ishaq-ibrahim-ibn-umar/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-16.

Improve this page on GitHub · Report an error · JSON

Wing

People

Prophets, companions, scholars, rulers, scientists, poets, travelers: women and men who shaped the story.
Related

The seven ahruf

The Prophet's saying 'the Qur'an was revealed in seven ahruf, so read of it what is easy' — narrated through Umar's dispute with Hisham ibn Hakim over Surat al-Furqan; its exact meaning is one of the widest debates in Qur'anic sciences.